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and used as offices. Today the house is still used as offices but is divided up between a number of small businesses. The substantial grounds were built on in the mid 1970s to accommodate the
Riverdale Park apartment complex and the house is now hemmed in by modern buildings.
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at the front. The house has a fine entrance lodge at the corner of Graham Road and
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Despite his success as a businessman, Graves did have financial difficulties in 1908 and was forced to lease
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